How to use socket_lock method of Selenium.WebDriver Package

Decoding the url itself can be done via ruby URI module. The bigger challenge is to get only the right part out of the path. You could do something like this:

URI.decode(yahoo_url).match(%r{RU=(.*)/RK}).captures

This gives you a list of matched content, so in your example ["http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something"]

But beware this regex only works if the url you want always comes after RU= and is followed by /RK.

If you want to use ruby instead of selenium, you can use the exists? method to check the downloads directory for a given file, and it will return a Boolean result. For example:

File.exists?('C:\Users\User\Downloads\foo.txt')

If only one of the buttons is ever on the page, the simplest solution is to just look for both buttons at once using the CSS comma

find(".button_one, .button_two").click

If it's possible for both buttons to be on the page at the same time then that will get you an Ambiguous match error, in which case you could do something like

find(".button_one, .button_two", match: :first).click

or

all(".button_one, .button_two")[0].click

It's also possible to check whether an element exists without raising an exception using the Capybara provided predicates has_css?/has_xpath?/etc. which would give code like

if page.has_css?(".button_one")
  find(".button_one")
else
  find(".button_two")
end.click

but in this case using the CSS comma would definitely be the better solution.

I have tried it on the Ubuntu 16.04 (updated) and ruby which comes with the system ruby 2.3.1p112 (2016-04-26) [x86_64-linux-gnu].

From what I guess is that you are using wrong, old (in the guide there is version 2.26 which will not work with current chrome), chromedriver, which is not compatible with the current stable chrome.

The current stable chrome is Unpacking google-chrome-stable (71.0.3578.98-1) ... and so you need to get chromedriver as close as possible to the chrome version.

To get complete list of chromedrivers' versions click here.

In my case that would be a 71.0.3578.80 version:

wget -N http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/71.0.3578.80/chromedriver_linux64.zip

You can then continue as shown at the instructions.

Then you will get working selenium-webdriver:

irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'selenium-webdriver'
=> true
irb(main):003:0> options = Selenium::WebDriver::Chrome::Options.new
=> #<Selenium::WebDriver::Chrome::Options:0x00000002ee6db0 @args=#<Set: {}>, @binary=nil, @prefs={}, @extensions=[], @options={}, @emulation={}, @encoded_extensions=[]>
irb(main):004:0> options.add_argument('--headless')
=> #<Set: {"--headless"}>
irb(main):005:0> @driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:chrome, options: options)
=> #<Selenium::WebDriver::Chrome::Driver:0x..f95c429ee62a3a152 browser=:chrome>

Note: If you have issues installing ffi install libffi-dev via apt-get.

Here is one option:

driver.switch_to.alert.accept rescue Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoAlertOpenError

This will click OK on the alert if one is present, else it will fail gracefully (silently).

The only way to solve these issues is to debug the error received. To debug, we can add screenshots at different places in the scenario to identify the cause of the failure. If this is failing as page not completely loaded, then to solve this issue, is to increase the default wait time to open the particular page or to locate an element. Once the page loads or element is located, set the default time to its original value.

Example: 1. You can add screen shot in you scenario:

Scenario: Click on Sign In Link
Given Joe opens "www.yahoo.com" page
When Joe takes screenshot with file name "ScreenShot1"
When Joe clicks "Sign In" link

The second line "When Joe takes screenshot with file name "ScreenShot1" can be used to take the screen shot

And(/^(\S*) takes screenshot with file name "([^"]*)"$/) do |user, file_name|
  takes_screenshot_with_file_name(file_name, "ScreenShot")
end

def takes_screenshot_with_file_name(file_name, message)
  page.save_screenshot("../../target/#{file_name}.png", :full => true)
end

2. Default wait time can be increased in below mentioned way:

The second line "And Joe waits for "Sign In" link" can be used to increase the default wait time

Scenario: Click on Sign In Link
Given Joe opens "www.yahoo.com" page
And Joe waits for "Sign In" link
When Joe clicks "Sign In" link

And(/^Joe waits for "([^"]*)" link$/) do |linkName|
  Capybara.default_wait_time = 120
  page.should have_content(linkName)
  Capybara.default_wait_time = DEFAULT_WAIT_TIME
end

Sounds like a timing issue. When the link is clicked, the dialog containing the select list may not appear before Watir tries to interact with it.

Try waiting for the select list:

b.select_list(:name => "bedroomsMin").when_present.select '3+ Beds'

 require 'watir'
 b = Watir::Browser.start 'http://www.gmail.com'
 t = b.text_field id: 'entry_1000000'
 t.exists?
 t.set 'your name'
 t.value

put exact id of that text field . id or xpath or name etc

For other people on MacOS:

brew cask install chromedriver

And you'll be good to go.

If using Homebrew 2.6.0 (released in 2020.12.01) or above, you should use:

brew install --cask chromedriver